An Abstraction Failure. How a Frankernel Bites Us

Last week a colleague ping us on #container-support slack channel to report us a weird bug. A container worked on his machine, but not on our OpenShift cluster. He said that the dynamic linker was not able to resolve the libQt5Core.so.5. This was new since it worked perfectly for QGIS 3.10 but not in 3.16. Result of ldd /usr/local/bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi|grep Core where: libQt5Core.so.5 => not found libQt5Core.so.5 => not found libQt5Core.so.5 => not found libQt5Core....

January 29, 2021 · 3 min · 507 words · Rémi Desgrange

Emoji on Linux

I tried several stuff to configure emoji properly on Linux. I really suffer to get it working Here is my desktop setup : Distro: Arch Linux WM: Wayland DE: Gnome Terminal: Alacritty If you don’t know Alacritty, you should check it out. They still have a weird bug with emoji but it’s a great terminal emulator. I installed the noto emoji, but it emoji one also works. On arch: pacman -S noto-fonts-emoji On ubuntu...

May 7, 2020 · 6 min · 1220 words · Rémi Desgrange

My WireGuard Setup

We have a new VPN at work which works with WireGuard. There are a lot of guides on the web like : Wireguard VPN : Typical Setup : The poetry of (in)security Getting Started with WireGuard I’m going to present 2 cases: Home need: I need a VPN access for my phone and laptop in order to access block stuff in some situation. All the traffic goes throught the VPN. It’s the simplest case Work need: I need to access some ip or ip ranges but not all the traffic goes throught the VPN....

April 22, 2020 · 5 min · 892 words · Rémi Desgrange